Excerpt from The Law of Love and Love as a Law: Or Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical If not, it is for them to reconcile their acceptance of the precept with their acceptance of Christianity as a philosophy. What we need is a Christian philosophy. Not that philosophy is to be received on the basis of revelation. To be philosophy it must be received on the basis of reason. But if a revelation really from God teach or imply a phi losophy, it must coincide with that taught by reason, and ought to be seen thus to coincide. If Christen dom is ever to be a fair exponent of Christianity, its Moral Philosophy must be that of Christianity. We need also a philosophy in which the practical shall be drawn from the theoretical part, so that they shall not stand, as in most of our treatises, like the two sides of the Yosemite Valley, with a deep gulf between them. If, as Dr. Wayland says in the opening of his Practical Ethics, the whole Moral Law is contained in the single word Love, it would seem self - evident that the theoretical part, the philosophy, must consist of an exposition of Law and Love as they are in themselves, and as related to each other. Such an exposition Dr. Wayland did not attempt, nor can it be successfully at tempted by any one of his school, or of the school of Right, except as it shall be shown that the two precepts above given are identical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.